On a more personal note, this is an article by/about one of the groups I work for, Staat van Beleg (State of Siege). We record all the violations we can find in all kinds of (written) media and boringly log them in a database. We all do about 3 days a month and then some do the graphics etcetera obviously.

In strictly legal terms, the Jewish Nation-State Bill offers limited changes. Since its founding in 1948, Israel has defined itself as a state of the Jewish people rather than of all the country's citizens, including its Palestinian minority.

The Law of Return of 1950 allows only Jews to immigrate to Israel and receive citizenship. Adalah, a legal rights group, has documented dozens of laws that explicitly discriminate against Palestinian citizens.

But the new legislation is significant for reasons beyond its immediate legal implications.

Not least, it gives Israel's self-definition as the nation-state of the Jewish people something akin to constitutional standing, observed Ali Haider, a human rights lawyer and former co-director of Sikkuy, an organisation lobbying for equal citizenship rights.

The bill, if passed, will join a handful of Basic Laws intended to provide the foundation for any future constitution. Such laws take precedence over ordinary laws and are much harder to repeal.

"This is a very dangerous step because it makes explicit in a Basic Law that all Jews, even those who are not citizens, have superior rights in Israel to those citizens who are Palestinian," he told Al Jazeera.

With Israel’s war against BDS getting ever more desperate, we can expect it to get more and more extreme. As long as Israel faces no consequences from Western governments for its human rights violations and war crimes, such dirty tricks campaigns will only intensify.

The Reut-ADL report shows us that while Israel’s global anti-Palestinian war is still dangerous, it has nothing new to propose. However, the lobbyists can’t see the wood for the trees; their loyalty to the rogue Zionist state blinds them to the reality that the only way to bring BDS to an end is for Israel to halt its abuses against Palestinians; end its brutal military occupation; allow refugees to return to their land; and grant full equality to all citizens. All of these are required by international laws and conventions; BDS activists are not asking for anything unsavoury or illegal, unlike their opponents in Reut, the ADL and their ilk, which tells us a lot about the people involved on both sides.

One of my colleagues is Jewish, and lived for a time in Israel. Once or twice I've made the mistake of suggesting in her presence that not everything the Israeli government does is necessarily admirable -- or even legal.

Her response can be summed up as: "I lived there, and I know from personal experience that the Palestinians hate us with every fiber of their beings and want every Jew dead -- for no other reason than because we're Jewish. They are the aggressors, not us, and absolutely anything we do in response to their aggressions is more than justified."

I've learned not to touch the subject in her presence, even when she brings it up (as she often does), because it inevitably leads (and very quickly) to this otherwise calm and rational woman snarling: "You don't get to tell me that anything Israel does is illegal or unjustified!"

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They have managed to make money on the occupation in many ways. The EU picks up a lot of the tabs for infrastructure and services that Israel is obliged to provide under international law. Plus they pocket most of the Aid to the Palestinians: 72 Percent Of Aid To Palestine Ends Up 'In Israeli Hands'

But this is probably the most cynical way they make money off it:

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But why are security companies in Israel, as opposed to any other country, so coveted?

“All of the Israeli companies would immediately answer the question: We have actual experience, and we have tested these weapons on human beings,” said Shir Hever, an Israeli researcher and author of the book The Political Economy of the Occupation.

The family feared that the Israeli authorities would take away his body away after armed police stormed into the hospital, while Israeli officers began hurling tear gas into crowds outside the hospital.

Similar scenes were posted online of the body of Mohammed Mahmoud Sharaf, aged 17, shot dead by a settler, being carried by hundreds to his grave.

Blocking an 'Israeli Arab' (i.e. uncleansed Palestinian who has Israeli citizenship) member of parlement from entering al-Aqsa, when they parade armed settlers around there about every week, really rubs it in how you can sit in parlement but you are still just an Arab...

The outrageous bill of particulars for the Al Aqsa Intifada keeps mounting. Two days ago a Palestinian doctor was taking his nieces and nephews on a trip to Jerusalem’s main downtown street, Jaffa Road, when a Jewish passerby saw something he didn’t like in the face of one of the man’s nephews, a 14 year-old boy. The “Good Samaritan” immediately went to a light rail security guard and reported the “terrorist” in their midst. At which point the guard ran to the scene and commenced beating the boy senseless without warning or provocation.

The doctor then threw himself physically on top of his nephew to prevent the beating from doing serious damage to his charge. Then other passersby joined in the fray and began shouting racist slogans at the Palestinian family. Many of them had pistols, which they brandished threatening to shoot him.